A small perennial, 6–20 cm tall, polycarpic herb, densely woolly stem solitary, erect, hidden by reflexed leaves. Leaves rosetted, concolorous, greyish green white or yellow, arachnoid-lanate, obovate, rhombic or fan shaped, rotundate or obtuse apically, pinnatilobed to dentate. Capitula many in a hemispheric synflorescence, 2.5 – 3.5 (–7) cm in diameter, sessile. Involucre cylindric, 3 – 4 seriate. Outer phyllaries ovate-triangular, 15-25 mm long, white or brown lanate apically, caudate, middle and inner phyllaries obovate – oblong, 10–14 mm long glabrous, rounded and ciliate at the apex. Receptacle with 0.5–2 mm long bristles. Corolla bluish purple, 10-13 mm long, tube 5-7 mm long, limb 3–6 mm, lobes 1-3 mm long. Cypselas black – dark brown, fusiform, 8 – 10 mm long. Pappus dirty white, outer bristles 3-6 mm long, inner ones 10-13 mm long.